Hidden inside wonderful sit underflow and wonderful, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 16 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 267 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
underflow and wonderful tie for the highest Scrabble score from wonderful at 16 points. The top 10 of 267 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in wonderful: one comes from rearranging its letters, and wonderful itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with wonderful. For points, the strongest plays are underflow and wonderful — each worth 16 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 2 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in wonderful. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are flounder and unfolder, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in wonderful produces 9 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is frowned, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling wonderful turns up 34 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with flowed, flower, louder, refund, and wonder. For points, the strongest plays are flowed, fowled, and wolfed — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 45 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in wonderful. If a familiar word is all you need, start with drown, flown, found, lower, lured, nuder, and older. For points, the strongest plays are flown, frown, and woful — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in wonderful produces 86 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with done, down, drew, fled, flew, flow, and fold. For points, the strongest plays are flew, flow, fowl, frow, and wolf — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling wonderful turns up 66 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with due, elf, end, fed, few, flu, and for. For points, the strongest play is few — worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 23 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in wonderful. If a familiar word is all you need, start with do, ew, no, of, on, or, and ow. For points, the strongest plays are ef, ew, fe, of, ow, we, and wo — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
1 ten-letter word can be made using all the letters in wonderful plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in wonderful and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
wonderful is in the NWL, the official Scrabble word list for North America, and in the Words With Friends dictionary, so it's playable exactly as it stands and needs no unscrambling.
The 3-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record one sense for wonderful. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 16 points on a Scrabble board:
wonderful is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing wonderful unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are underflow and wonderful, worth 16 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from wonderful earns more points in Scrabble. Words With Friends prices the same letters differently, so the top of the list changes on a Words With Friends board. Both scores count tile values only and exclude premium squares.
The letters in wonderful produce 267 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 2 eight-letter words, 9 seven-letter words, 34 six-letter words, 45 five-letter words, 86 four-letter words, 66 three-letter words and 23 two-letter words.